With Steps looking likely to chart on Friday with their first new hit since 2001. How many artists can we find who have had a chart comeback with anew recording after at least approx. 10 years away from the singles chart?

As the thread is about Singles comebacks I guess one of the most impressive was Pink Floyd in 1979 with "Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)", got to number 1 after about 12 years of not releasing Singles!

Cher had hits as a solo artist and as half of Sonny and Cher from 1965-74. She was then absent from the chart until 1987 when she returned and continued to have hits until 2001. Her next (and, so far, final) hit was in 2013.

I Hope You Find It <3 I love the fact that that went top 30 here. The 'sales era' could still pull off some surprises even as late as 2013. She ought to have been credited on Meatloaf's 1981 hit Dead Ringer For Love in that huge gap between 1974-1987.

I feel like this Steps song is very much a last gasp from the sales era actually, possibly the last ever song to go top 40 that deduces as much as 90% of its sales from paid for purchases. Streaming is just too big to overcome now. When an iTunes #1 of this ilk can only scrape the top 40 officially it's a sign that this is unlikely to happen again for any future sales-dominant hits.

Unless of course Taylor is still abandoning Spotify with her new era, but seeing as she'll never have another major hit again if she does that, it seems highly unlikely!

In that case you could count the Hollies 'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother'

The difference is that that was a re-release of a single that had previously been a hit. Whereas the Beatles T40 comeback 'Baby It's You' had not previously been a single, although it was of course recorded in the 1960s.

Kate Bush returned to the chart in 2005 for the first time since 1994.David Bowie's comeback hit 'Where Are We Now?' in 2013 was his first Top 40 since 2002.His old mate Lou Reed did it twice: from 'Walk On The Wild Side' to that version of 'Soul Man' with Sam Moore in 1987, and then from that to the remix of 'Satellite Of Love' in 2004... and both those solo hits originated from the same album too.

Sia had a top 10 hit in 2000 with Taken For Granted. Nothing else until Chandelier in 2014. Even if you include being a featured singer,there's still a gap of 10 years between Destiny in 2001 and Titanium in 2011.